Stumper of the Week: Rick Perry’s Imaginary Obama Showdown

The nuttiest things said this week in Texas politics

Every Friday from here till the end of this year’s campaign stumping season, we’re honoring the most outlandish, befuddling, illogical or just flat-out clueless statements of the week in Texas politics. Here are this week’s Honorable Mention Stumpers:

Well, there’s always the Congressional gym

“How often can you go see a bunch of white guys play basketball?”

—Congressman Pete Sessions, referring to the Princeton basketball team as he introduced New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to GOP lawmakers on Sept. 28. At least two black congressmen were reportedly in the room. Sessions added that the Ivy League game he’d attended was “played entirely below the rim.”

Logic 101

“There are already guns on campus. All too often they are illegal. I want there to be legal guns on campus.”